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Bleeding heart of a girl

Love and Light

By chidinma onwuegbuPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Bleeding heart of a girl
Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash

Why my heart is bleeding?

In the dimly lit room, I sat hunched over my worn-out typewriter, fingers tapping against the keys. The click-clack sound filled the silence, echoing my melancholic thoughts. I was a ghost in my own world, tasked with weaving tales that stirred emotions but remained detached from the world.

But tonight was different. Tonight, my heart bled with a pain that refused to be ignored. The weight of a lost love pressed against my chest, suffocating me with every breath. As I gazed out of the dusty window, the moon bathed the world in an ethereal glow, mirroring the ghostly pallor of my emotions.

With trembling hands, I adjusted the paper in the typewriter and allowed the words to flow, capturing the essence of my bleeding heart. The story unfolded like a spectral dance, tracing the fragile threads of love and loss. It was a tale of two souls intertwined, their bond once unbreakable but now fractured beyond repair.

As the protagonist grappled with heartache, his emotions manifested in the form of a ghostly presence. A haunting specter, wandering through the corridors of his mind, whispered echoes of memories and dreams. Each step, each touch, became a reminder of what was lost, the pain intensifying like a phantom wound.

Through the protagonist's journey, the readers were drawn into the depths of his despair. They could feel the weight of his grief, as if their own hearts bled alongside his. The story became a vessel for the unspoken sorrows, a cathartic release of emotions trapped within the recesses of their souls.

As the last keystroke echoed in the room, I leaned back, exhausted yet liberated. The story I had penned had become an extension of my bleeding heart, a ghostly reflection of my own pain. It was a secret offering to the world, a whisper of vulnerability masked by the guise of fiction.

I sent the manuscript off into the world, uncertain of its reception. But deep down, I knew that somewhere, someone would read those words and find solace in the shared sorrow. For even though I was a ghost writer, tonight my heart bled openly on those pages, reaching out to touch the souls of others.

And perhaps, in that connection, in the weaving of pain and healing, I would find my own redemption—a ghostly echo of hope amidst the bleeding.

In the hushed solitude of the room, I sat immersed in the dance of my thoughts, a solitary figure surrounded by a sea of ink-stained pages. The soft glow of a flickering candle cast eerie shadows, dancing and swaying like ethereal specters in the corners of my weary mind. With every passing moment, the weight of my bleeding heart pressed upon me, an ache that seemed to seep into the very fabric of my existence.

As I peered out of the dust-laden window, the moon, a celestial observer, painted the world outside in a haunting luminescence. Its pale light cast a ghostly pallor upon the landscape, mirroring the pallor of my own emotions. I yearned to reach out and grasp that ethereal radiance, to absorb its otherworldly essence into the depths of my being, hoping it could somehow heal the wounds that festered within.

With trembling hands, I sought solace in the familiar embrace of my weathered typewriter. The keys, worn by countless stories and midnight musings, became extensions of my own fragile emotions. Click-clack, click-clack, they resounded, echoing the rhythm of my heart, like a sorrowful dirge, mourning the loss that had torn asunder the tapestry of love.

As the words began to flow, an intricate dance of letters and phrases, my trembling fingers wove a story, a narrative that mirrored the tumultuous journey of my own bleeding heart. The protagonist, a vessel for my own buried pain, navigated a labyrinth of shattered dreams and unspoken longing. The specter of heartbreak manifested within the story's ethereal tapestry, its presence haunting every paragraph, leaving trails of melancholy in its wake.

Through the protagonist's eyes, the readers were invited to traverse the treacherous terrain of emotions, to taste the bitterness of loss and the sweetness of fleeting moments. They were drawn into the depths of despair, where shadows whispered secrets and memories lingered like wraiths in the corridors of the mind. Each word, carefully chosen, was imbued with the weight of longing, the echoes of a love that had become an elusive specter.

The story, like an ancient spell, cast its enchantment upon the readers, ensnaring their hearts within its spectral grasp. As they traversed the pages, they found themselves suspended in a realm where time stood still, where the lines between reality and fiction blurred, and the bleeding hearts of characters resonated with their own unspoken sorrows.

In the depths of the night, as the last keystroke resounded in the chamber of my thoughts, I leaned back, my spirit spent yet liberated. The manuscript, a vessel for my own bleeding heart, was now a secret offering to the world, a ghostly whisper of vulnerability masked by the guise of fiction.

With a mixture of trepidation and hope, I released those ink-stained pages into the vast unknown, allowing them to find their own destiny. For within the tapestry of those words, I had bared my soul, unabashedly exposing the fragile veins that pulsed with raw emotion. I yearned for someone, somewhere, to read those words and find solace in the shared agony, to feel the echoes of their own bleeding hearts entwined with mine.

And so, as the story ventured forth into the world, I found solace in the delicate connection it fostered. For even though I was a ghost writer, an ethereal conduit for emotions left unspoken, tonight my heart bled openly upon those pages. In that act of vulnerability, I hoped to touch the souls of others, to weave a bond between bleeding hearts that transcended the boundaries of time and space.

And perhaps, just perhaps, within the delicate tapestry of pain and healing, I would find my own redemption—a ghostly echo of hope amidst the bleeding, whispering promises of resilience and renewal.

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